Montag, 9. Juli 2007

Verfassungsbruch

Zwei der Architekten der palästinensischen Verfassung, Anis al-Qasem und Prof. Eugene Cotran erheben inihren ersten statements seit der Inauguration der ramallahnischen Regierung schere Vorwürfe gegen den Präsidenten Mahmoud "Sonnenstaat" Abbas. Sie disagnostizieren Verfassungsbruch da Abbas seine verfassungsgemäßen Kompetenzen mit der Bildung der Gegenregierung überschritten habe. Die Verfassung "also does not permit him to suspend articles of the Basic Law, as he did last month to spare Salam Fayyad, the new prime minister, the need to win a vote in parliament". Via reuters/al-jazeera: Jamal Nazzal, Fatah spokesman, was quoted on Palestine Radio saying the Basic Law does not limit how often the president can declare a state of emergency, so it can be extended "as long as the mutiny which brought that situation about continues." Azmi Shuaibi, who sat on a parliamentary committee on the Basic Law, defended Abbas's power to suspend articles. He said Article 113, which stipulates that the legislature "shall not be dissolved or suspended during the emergency situation, nor shall the provisions of this chapter be suspended," meant he "can suspend articles in other chapters". Al-Qasem disagreed, cautioning against making "such wild implication ... particularly where the implication could easily lead to dictatorship - the system that the Basic Law was intended, in all its provisions, to guard against. They are obviously looking for the slimmest argument to build a mountain on and dry the ocean. They are destroying the foundation on which the Basic Law is laid," he told Reuters. Al-Qasem and Cotran said the Basic Law further says that Haniya's unity cabinet should remain the caretaker administration until Abbas secured parliamentary approval for a new government.